Porcelain Industry

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Porcelain industry at Yuan to middle Ming is one of the crucial industry in this era. In other words, both dynasties developed their economy by developing and trading those products. There are official records that government supported kilns in Jingdezhen. As the demand was increased, the number of workers also increased. The number of worker means it was very serious industry in the time. Therefore, analyzing this industry is critical so that we can infer the lifestyle and cultural issue at that specific period. The industry mainly occurred at Jingdezhen. It is located at Jiangxi province, southern east part of China, and northern east part of its province. Most of the kilns that produced porcelain were sited in here. Figure 1. As the …show more content…

As Yuan dynasty was ruled by nomad, Mongolian, Chinese people wanted back their original and authentic culture. Hence, the uniformity with the most elaborated, technique and decor started to re-appear in Ming dynasty. They followed the Song dynasty design, since it was also built by ethnic Han Chinese, with developed features. The harmonization of the design and vessel emerged. As it mentioned it reached the most elaborated design and this part achieved at Chenghua era, one of emperor in Ming. The ware had another name which is multicolored ware. In Chinese, it called ‘Doucai’ (鬥彩) stands for joined color when it is translated in English. The basic step was same as Yuan dynasty porcelain procedure. The underglazed blue outline and overglaze enamel has used. In this dynasty, the porcelain tends to be small still they required high technique and sophisticated design. One of factor that this design was flourished because consort Wan required this kind so that it can be used as presents or personal use. The use of this color was available for maritime trade. This allowed the rather fast and able to occupy large amount of market. Since, their reaching area was bigger than Yuan, more trading took place. The decorations from Persia was smalt blue and this gave the stronger color with currently used cobalt blue. By the application of various colors, the fanciful design was capable. The style also has changed in Jiajing …show more content…

In this essay, it will discuss the symbol used in court. One of the common symbol was dragon. Dragon, in China, means the son of heaven. This is general to both dynasties even in Qing dynasty too. They believed the imperial is the replacement of dragon, the emperor is the representative of dragon to rule their country. Thus, the symbol of dragon can show people worshiped their emperor. Dragon designed porcelain can also describe the rank in the court. The number of claws can specify levels of certain owners. For the emperor, successor was given five-clawed dragon. Four-clawed dragon is the next ranked people in court such as second heir or son. The fish was also common in the design. This can show two factors one is the resemblance of pronunciation of certain Chinese letter and hobby of the that period. Pronunciation of fish in Chinese is ‘Yu’, which is similar as wealth in Chinese, there is difference in intonation. Thus, this can also be said that fortune wish was common in that time and still very common in modern time. This decoration also depicts breeding fishes in court was also prevalent. This is another form of fortune wishes too. To conclude, fish is also very important figure in China. Chinese people believed it may bring wealth and

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